Terrible Analogies

Because when you love someone so much you put his feelings over yours. No matter how hurt you are, it doesn't matter.

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Love equips you with the power to hurt and likewise, it allows you to get hurt.

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People in general think that being an early childhood educator is an easy peasy lemon squeezy job. Let me tell you straight, it's not especially when you're in the childcare industry. We have so many things to deal with and settle so I'll break it down for you.

Firstly, we're in this line mainly for the children. Our philosophy in short, or mine rather, is to do everything in the best of my ability for the betterment of the child's future in all aspects of his life. We're educators first. But people see us as nannies because they send their child for at least 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Some even make use of it and send their children 12 hours a day, 5 days a week. So besides educating and building the child's character, we're ensuring that your child has his meals, showers, drinks enough water and all that jazz. Personally, I don't mind doing all that. The only reason is because I love my babies so much. They're technically not mine but I treat them as if they're mine.

Next, we bring our work home. We try our best not to but we always end up bringing some work home be it portfolios for parent teacher conference or the monthly updates; or lesson plans and evaluations; we do research for the lesson that we're having and we brainstorm for more ideas to make the lesson interesting. We do observation records of the children and gauge how much they've improved or what challenges they're facing and if there is, we think of ways of bringing it up to parents who can't accept comments like this readily. Speaking of parents, that's next.

Yes parents. The world has changed now. Or maybe just Singapore. Idk about the rest of the world but there used to be a time when parents listened to teachers but now they doubt you and if you get those seriously nasty ones, they complain and complain all the frickin time. Parents expectations have shot up unreasonably high. They expect their children to be able to feed themselves without mess at the age of two. They expect their children to do multiplication at six. They expect and they expect and expect. I'm thankful that most of my kids' parents are understanding but there are some that you feel like stuffing bullets down their throats.

We do all this and more (I've not touched on cleaning the school, setting up environment, fixing stuff and a lot more but I can't think of any cuz my mind has gone blank all of a sudden) and we get paid peanuts. I'm not saying im in this for the money because honestly, one does not earn or profit financially from this industry. I love children and that keeps me gg but reality is my love for children only gives me satisfaction in knowing I've done smth good but it won't put a bowl of rice on my table all the damn time.

Hahahaha okay I've gone way off track but basically what I'm trying to put across is I am exhausted physically and mentally but some people don't get it and think all I do is play at work. Oh well.

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